Chassidische Erzählungen by Jizchak Leib Perez 1936 Schocken Books Berlin
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TITLE: Chassidische Erzählungen
AUTHOR: Jizchak Leib Perez [aka: Isaac Leib Peretz] ; translated from Yiddish by Ludwig Strauss.
PUBLISHER: Berlin: Schocken Verlag
DATE: 1936
DESCRIPTION: 83, [1] p. ; 20 cm.
CONDITION NOTES: GOOD. Spine chipped and partially perished. Tape repairs. Foxing inside. Bookseller ticket on front pastedown.
BINDING: Hardcover.
STORIES: Zwischen zwei Bergen Chassidische Mischna Wenn nicht noch Höher Busse Beri der Schneider Kabbalisten.
In German. Translated Yiddish stories published in Berlin in 1936 during the Nazi Regime. It was closed in 1939 by criminal official authority.
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Schocken Books is an offspring of the Schocken Verlag, a publishing company that was established in Berlin in 1931 with a second office in Prague by the Schocken Department Store owner Salman Schocken. It published the writings of Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Franz Kafka and S. Y. Agnon, among others. After being closed by the Germans in 1939, Salman Schocken, the owner, who had immigrated from Germany to Palestine in 1934, founded the Hebrew-language Schocken Publishing House in Mandate Palestine. Salman Schocken himself immigrated to the U.S. in 1940. In 1945 he founded the English-language Schocken Books in New York City. In 1987 it was bought up by Random House. Schocken Books continues to publish Jewish literary works.
